Hey guys, quick question... How many different companies have had the name Jewel Productions?
I was going over the Vancouver Daily World page when I noticed it might not actually say "Jewel Productions." The full line is as follows, although the optical transcription is rough.
Dorothy Phillips, star of the Universal Jewel productions, was seen last night at the Colonial theatre in her first photodrama after "Destiny," "Paid in Advance."
It's Universal Jewel Productions. Dorothy Philips had a contract to work a certain number of films for them, as was common at the time. Paid in Advance came out in 1919, but the article is from 1921. It might actually be talking about "Man, Woman, and Marriage", which was out then. The American Film Institute credits them with two films, Paid in Advance and The Great Train Robbery. This link needs to go through the Wayback Machine
Universal Jewel Productions apparently made monster movies in the 1950s, and helped out with the Pink Panther Returns in the 1970s.
Could Universal still own them?
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Post by thegreatzoinks on May 26, 2018 9:05:34 GMT
It seems like Richard C. Kahn was a pretty well known director, and he died in the 60s so I am willing to bet he has some children who have possibly kept his films? It could be a much easier lead to follow and find places that specifically kept his films
Sorry for the delay. I took a look at it this afternoon. I have good news, bad news and neutral news.
The good news is that what arrived was a full hour VHS called Gender Line Extended.
The bad news is that the VHS does not have any immediately obvious connection to Children of Loneliness. I'll provide a video with images of the VHS, the case, and the opening montage, which, unfortunately, I could not capture sound for.
The front of the case reads "Building on the message of Gender Line (13.13 minutes documentary), Gender Line - Extended features 20 individuals representative of the BC trans communities. With a specific focus on the intersect across age, ability, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, viewers will learn to see trans stereotypes deconstructed." It is packaged in a library case. The original would not have looked the same way.
The editing is amateur. It looks like the editor used default titles from a movie editing software.
The neutral news is that I have this tape until the 17th, so if you want to know more about it, ask me.
If you had a video from 1935 about a topic you value, wouldn't you talk about it?
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Last call for more information on Gender Line Extended. I still think there are two different companies using the same name - one might even be named after the other.
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Last call for more information on Gender Line Extended. I still think there are two different companies using the same name - one might even be named after the other. Is there a way to save the information just in case. In the unlikely event it is what we are looking for (or just super obscure media) I feel like we should save it. Additionally there may be clues in the cast and credits, small companies tend to do that, recycle talent. Maybe some of the cameramen have information.
Post by insertuserhere on Jun 17, 2018 18:02:40 GMT
According to this article www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493649/Children-of-Loneliness/notes.html it was re-issued in 1953, Criterion Theater in LA screened it in Nov. 1937, it's only an hour, and the censors banned it. Criterion Theater seems to have been destroyed in 1941 and to have stood at 642 S Grand Ave. Aside from that, this page pro.imdb.com/company/co0025940/ is about a Jewel Productions, and it says one of the films they distributed is called The Third Sex, so it is most likely the one we're looking for. It also produced "Love Slaves of the Amazon" in 1957, so it existed up until at least 1957. It also has other possibly helpful data, however, for IMDbPro subscribers only, such as supposed contact info, so anyone with an IMDbPro sub please check it out! Also, there are other listed entries I can't spot yet, so see if Gender Line Extended is on there.
Last call for more information on Gender Line Extended. I still think there are two different companies using the same name - one might even be named after the other.
Is there a way to save the information just in case. In the unlikely event it is what we are looking for (or just super obscure media) I feel like we should save it. Additionally there may be clues in the cast and credits, small companies tend to do that, recycle talent. Maybe some of the cameramen have information.
In order to write outside of a quote box, you need to click underneath it. IDK why Proboards doesn't do it automatically.
I can get images of the film's cast and credits, but I have no way of backing up the tape itself. It's not even my tape. It belongs to the University of Calgary.
According to this article www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493649/Children-of-Loneliness/notes.html it was re-issued in 1953, Criterion Theater in LA screened it in Nov. 1937, it's only an hour, and the censors banned it. Criterion Theater seems to have been destroyed in 1941 and to have stood at 642 S Grand Ave. Aside from that, this page pro.imdb.com/company/co0025940/ is about a Jewel Productions, and it says one of the films they distributed is called The Third Sex, so it is most likely the one we're looking for. It also produced "Love Slaves of the Amazon" in 1957, so it existed up until at least 1957. It also has other possibly helpful data, however, for IMDbPro subscribers only, such as supposed contact info, so anyone with an IMDbPro sub please check it out! Also, there are other listed entries I can't spot yet, so see if Gender Line Extended is on there.
Ooh, nice find! I knew about "The Third Sex", but not "Love Slaves of the Amazon."
IMDB promotes IMDB Pro on all of their pages, even if they don't have info related to that film. We may not need that information anyway. Looks like Universal Productions was involved with distributing "Love Slaves of the Amazon," and Universal and Jewel Productions have been associated in the past.
Here is the Copyright Office's registry for Love Slaves of the Amazon. The other registries are too old to be in the database. They are in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, but you have to search through them manually.
E-mailing Universal might be a good idea at this point.
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I sent an e-mail to Universal's corporate - general inquiries email. I figured if anybody knew of a connection between Universal and Jewel, it would be them. I am considering sending one to Turner Classic Movies, asking them for their sources regarding the Children of Loneliness article. It seems to have information we don't have elsewhere. do have elsewhere, but I had forgotten about. Having the exact sources for the older articles would be handy.
I was in Calgary for a week and I never went to the University. Silly me.
Thank you for checking in, nitratetednerd.
As a reminder to myself: I am looking for a copy of Gender Line Extended at the Taylor Family Digital Library. It's in their VHS catalog.
I hope that doesn't require getting special permissions.
And when you get the tape, try to find as much information about the distributor of Gender Line Extended. It seems like that company would have it. While GLE is not the film we're looking for, the distributors are hopefully the same. If you can find any contacts with them or if there is a phone number on the tape or anything of that sort, thats what is important.
Jewel productions apparently has an address here in New York, 410 E. 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 USA
But I think thats an apartment complex, and no room number was given.
The main goal right now is to find the US "Jewel Productions" and see if they still exist.
Gender Line Extended was made by Christine WG Burnham, a trans advocate in the Vancouver community. She died in 2003. The video publisher, Video Out, still exists. I sent them an e-mail.
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Here are the credits. I'm a bit too busy to transcribe them right now, but here are some interesting things:
Video Out is listed as "Video Out International"
A professional company has a "telus.net" address (Telus being a cable / phone / internet provider)
The company is listed as GC Service's Jewel Productions. "GC" is an acronym for "Government of Canada" in web addresses, or a debt collection company in Texas. Neither seem to be relevant to this.
The VHS tape has been returned. It consists entirely of interviews with various people about being transgender. The fanciest editing is a Ken Burns effect on photos. Nothing talks about Children of Loneliness.
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Post by insertuserhere on Jun 22, 2018 19:10:34 GMT
So Gender Line Extended may not be related. I don't know how much this will help, but we already know Love Slaves of the Amazon was produced by Jewel. According to the Wikipedia page for it, it was directed and written by Curt Siodmak, who died Sep. 2 2000. TCM also has some data on both that and CoL(here is a cast www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493649/Children-of-Loneliness/). I also don't know whether it was released in 1934 or 37(possibly released as The Third Sex in 1934 and Children of Loneliness in 1937). In 1934 they also distributed Hitler's Reign of Terror, which was found in Belgium, so maybe it was to be shown in Europe.